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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all – Sending this message along in case of interest to the GOAL community.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camille Gamboa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SAGE Publishing’s premier broad-spectrum HSS<i>
</i>OA journal celebrates strong growth on its five-year anniversary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Los Angeles, CA</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (May 19, 2016)
<b>SAGE Publishing</b> is delighted to report that its pioneering broad-spectrum open access journal<i>
<b><a href="http://sgo.sagepub.com/">SAGE Open</a></b> </i>is marking its fifth anniversary with more than 1,350 published articles that together have been viewed or downloaded more than 3.5 million times. Spanning the humanities and social and behavioral sciences,
<i>SAGE Open </i>is a peer-reviewed “gold” OA journal publishing original research and review articles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“Now our most-read journal,
<i>SAGE Open </i>launched at a time when open access publishing was just beginning to gain momentum in the social and behavioral sciences and humanities, and the success of
<i>SAGE Open</i> reflects a consistent need for high-quality, open access publishing in these disciplines,” commented David Ross, Executive Publisher, Open Access, SAGE Publishing. “An advocate of wide access to research, we are pleased to provide an authoritative,
high-quality OA outlet for HSS scholars since 2011 – and for what appears to be a promising future.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SAGE Open</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> published 44 papers in its first year and today, has accepted over 1,400 articles from
more than 11,600 international authors in fields such as education, psychology, sociology, communication, management, political science, economics, criminology, health, and many more. It<i>
</i>is now included in Thomson Reuters’ Emerging Sources Citation Index and indexed in Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“In the past five years,
<i>SAGE Open</i> has engaged an impressive amount of the academic community, supporting collaboration across disciplines, and connecting research with the public,” continued Ross. “With our increasing emphasis on progressive publishing technologies, issues
surrounding data, new research methods and article types, <i>SAGE Open</i> is well-positioned as the place for quality HSS innovation in form, content, and substance. Furthermore, with our upcoming partnership with Atypon, we’re pleased to further support
this network with cutting-edge technology that leads to enhanced user experiences and delivery of relevant content.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SAGE Open
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> has connected a network of nearly 4,500 article editors and 7,000 reviewers, all supported by an editorial board of 500 subject experts from 63 countries. Its<i>
</i>articles have appeared in international news outlets such as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Guardian</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>NBC News</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>The Chronicle
of Higher Education</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>BBC News</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Atlantic</i>.<i>
</i>For more information, click <a href="http://sgo.sagepub.com/">here</a>.</span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">Sara Miller McCune founded
<b>SAGE Publishing</b> in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE is a leading international provider of innovative, high-quality content publishing more than 950 journals and over 800 new books each year,
spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s
continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne.<span style="color:#333333"> </span><a href="http://www.sagepublishing.com%20">www.sagepublishing.com
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">SAGE Open</span></b></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">is
a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.
<a href="http://www.sgo.sagepub.com">www.sgo.sagepub.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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